I understand this is a very n00b question however.

The parity is still syncing, I want to store data. Do I do this on /mnt/disk1 or /mnt/disks

 

I would assume disk1 and then that syncs?

Have you looked at the Getting Started page on the Limetech website?

 

Are you copying data over the network or how?

 

You really shouldn't even have a /mnt/disks (mountpoint, not partition) unless you have installed the Unassigned Devices plugin.

 

And parity is realtime in unRAID so any write to any disk in the parity array writes parity immediately.

 

Personally I would wait till parity is built before beginning any large data transfer.

Indeed I have, thanks for the prompt response.

The data is going over the network from a windows server to unraid.

 

https://postimg.org/image/mj360q0t

 

This shows the selection options for a virtual machine, which one would I choose? user?

 

Shall I just move the data off the server, re start the parity sync and take it from there?

Your link isn't working for me. Better if you can attach images directly to your post instead of making us access an unknown website with unknown security risks.

 

Since I don't know what your image looks like I can't even begin to guess why you are changing the discussion to virtual machines.

 

If you are copying from Windows then you would use shares on your unRAID server, not mountpoints such as /mnt.

 

As I said in my first response to you

... parity is realtime in unRAID so any write to any disk in the parity array writes parity immediately.

 

Personally I would wait till parity is built before beginning any large data transfer.

Or you could new config and remove parity, then copy (not move) all the data, then add parity. Some people do it this way since writes are faster without parity.

 

Have you tested the drives you will be using in your unRAID server?

The forum allowed 127KB images, mine was larger, hence a 3rd party site.

 

My point about the VM was the selection choices for drives

Said choices would be:

cache

disk1

disks

user

user0

 

Which one would be chosen when creating a VM, or doing anything storage related?

 

I suggest you take things a little bit at a time instead of asking a lot of questions about a lot of different things. The way you are asking some of your questions suggests you may have some learning to do.

 

Have you already installed any addons? Your use of "disks" suggests you probably have Unassigned Devices installed but you don't know how to use it.

 

Since you started out talking about storage I would start with that part and forget completely about VMs and any addons until you understand how to use unRAID as a NAS. Concentrate on that part, study the wiki, search the forum (see search tips in my sig), read some of the stickies here on the forum, and ask better and more focused questions.

 

What about my recent question: Have you tested the disks you are going to use in your unRAID server? It is very important that all bits of all disks are trustworthy since all bits of all disks are required if a disk needs to be rebuilt.

 

Tell us about your hardware.

Thanks for the advice.

The disks are all assigned, the drives all work, two new WD Reds (2TB) and one Sandisk SSD (240GB cache drive), its a Dell T110, 4 cores, 8GB RAM.

I digressed into VMs because I was limited in horse power with other vmware servers.

 

I'll stick with NAS for now, I'm still quite curious why only cache, disk1, ect only show up with VMs, as I would assume the shares would come up instead of the disks themselves.

 

 

From another computer, the user shares appear as the share name, but from the server itself, the user shares are under /mnt/user/sharename.

Thanks!

Thats been a huge help